Spotswood Public Library
548 Main Street
Tel. 732-251-1515 Fax. 732-251-8151
Services:
Adult Programs
Children's Programs (including Storytime)
Computer Training
Computer Printers (fee)
Copy Machine (fee)
Fax Service (fee)
Internet Access
Listen NJ
Literacy Tutoring
LmXac Services
Meeting Room
Public Use Computers
Reference & ILL Services
Service to Shut-ins
Tax Forms
Voter Registration Forms
Materials:
Audiobooks
Books
Circulating Encyclopedias
Compact Discs
Computer Games
DVDs ($1.50/week fee)
Hooked on Phonics
Large Print Books
Magazines
Newspapers
Puppets
Puzzles
Videos
Middlesex County Public Libraries:
Residents may use their Spotswood cards to borrow from these libraries:
Monmouth Co. Public Libraries:
Long Branch
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732-222-3900
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Long Branch Elberon
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732-780-1776
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Matawan Aberdeen
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732-583-9100
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Red Bank
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732-842-0690
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Somerset Co. Public Libraries:
Somerville
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908-725-1336
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Manville
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908-722-9722
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Library materials may be renewed 24/7 by calling 732-750-2965, or by going online to www.lmxac.org. Materials may also be renewed by calling the library directly at 732-251-1515, during library operating hours only.
Cranbury
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609-655-0555
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Carteret
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732-541-3830
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Dunellen
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732-968-4585
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Edison Main
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732-287-2298
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Edison North
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732-548-3045
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Edison Clara Barton
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732-738-0096
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Highland Park
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732-572-2750
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Jamesburg
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732-521-0440
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Metuchen
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732-632-8526
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Middlesex
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732-356-6602
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Milltown
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732-247-2270
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Monroe Township
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732-521-5000
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New Brunswick
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732-745-5108
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North Brunswick
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732-246-3545
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Old Bridge
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732-721-5600...Ext. 5024
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OB Laurence Harbor Branch
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732-566-2227
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Perth Amboy
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732-826-2600
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Piscataway Kennedy
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732-463-1633
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Piscataway Westergard
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732-752-1166
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Plainsboro
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609-275-2897
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Sayreville
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732-727-0212
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South Brunswick
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732-329-4000...Ext. 7286
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South Amboy
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732-721-6060
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South River
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732-254-2488
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Spotswood
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732-251-1515
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There's more than one way to read a book…
The Spotswood Library has audiobooks in two formats: on cassette tapes, and on CDs. You can also access downloadable audiobooks through your home computer via the ListenNJ project, available at ListenNJ.
You will need your library card to get started.
And now, you can also read a book with a Playaway, an MP3-style player preloaded with a complete book. Attach the Playaway to your belt or a lanyard, plug in your earbuds, and you can be listening to David Sedaris' Dress your Family in Corduroy & Denim or brushing up on your Spanish with the Complete Spanish Language Course. Twenty-two Playaway titles have been ordered, so come in and check them out!
What is this LMxAC?
LMxAC (Libraries of Middlesex Automation Consortium) is our non-profit partnership with 27 public libraries throughout Middlesex, Monmouth, Union and Somerset Counties. Through this organization the Spotswood Public Library is able to offer you, our customers, access to the materials that are not part of our local collection.
At a mere 4000 square feet, our Library is very small. Some of the larger libraries in our consortium have multiple sites, with main branches greater than 30,000 square feet. Our more limited funds and space restrict the resources we can supply to the community, but, luckily, through LMxAC, we are able to provide you with access to the holdings of these much larger libraries. This means that the newest James Patterson thriller you read might come from the shelves at Old Bridge. Or if your child needs right now a copy of Night by Eli Weisel and all our copies are checked out, you can drive to Monroe or Sayreville and check out a copy from either library.
Why LMxAC?
The Consortium has been serving local libraries since 1986 and began online services in 1989. As technology has advanced, so have the services provided by LMxAC. LMxAC provides the software, the telecommunications interface, and the expertise required to run our circulation system. Overdue notices, whether print, phone or email, are generated by this circulation system. Most recently, the Consortium has given our customers the opportunity to place online requests for materials. No longer do you have to put foot in the library to ask for materials (though
you do have to come to the library to charge the materials out!). You can also check your library account online to determine how many items are charged in your name and when they are due. And, of course, you can renew your materials online.
These are services that the Spotswood Public Library could never provide on its own. And this is part of the reason why the Library remains such a vital part of the community. We are a member of a partnership that extends from Long Branch at the Jersey Shore to Roselle Park in Union County.
And there's more to come…
As part of the effort to provide more and more opportunities to more and more people across the state, LMxAC has entered an Open Borrowing agreement with library consortiums throughout north Jersey. Now your Spotswood Library card is a "passport" to libraries in Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Warren and Sussex Counties. Through interlibrary loan service, we have always had the ability to obtain materials from these libraries for you. But now you can visit these libraries in person to check out materials. For example, you're visiting grandma in Teaneck, or on business in Whippanoag. In either case, the materials in those libraries are available to you, for you to take home.
And guess what? You can return those materials to the Spotswood Public Library, and we'll see that they get back to their home library. That's service. Service we are happy to provide to our Spotswood residents through our membership in LMxAC.
Isn't it nice to know?
